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ūç
Meaning:
tip, edge, end; border, frontier
The initial vowel of ūç was long, a distinction also reflected in Turkmen.
Examples
Translations
German:
Rand, Ende, Spitze; Grenze, Grenzgebiet
Russian:
край, конец, кончик; граница, пограничье
Turkish (Azerbaijan):
uc
Turkish (Türkiye):
uç
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Hendrik Boeschoten (2022) A dictionary of early middle Turkicpp. 366b–367app. 366b–367a
uč 1. ‘extremity, end, tip, border, edge’ (g.); Közi učï birlä baqmadï ‘He didn’t look from the corner of his eye’ (QA); Učun täprätgil ‘Shake your buttocks and move!’ (AH) [here uč might well be a mistake for uča]; el učï ‘border region’ (MG); el učïnda ‘at the fringes of town’ (QT2); barmaq učï ‘fingertip’ (QT4, MM); til učï ‘tip of the tongue’ (IM); til učïnda ‘on the tip of one’s tongue’ (GUL); učäri ‘man who lives at the border’ (KT); učqa elät= ‘to fulfill’ (QT3); kim učqa elätsä bïčïġïnï ‘whoever fulfills His covenant’ (QT3) | učluġ ‘with ... edges’; ekki učluġ bïčaq ‘double-edged knife’ (NF); ikki učluġ ẖanǰar ‘double-edged dagger’ (QA) | učïn ‘in the end’ (MM); Qamuġ ahl-ï maʿnī učïn ʿayb körär ‘All people of understanding in the end see what is wrong’ (MM) | učuq= ‘to come to an end’ (MAv); Učqu käčti iš ‘The matter was closed’ (MAv). uč 2. ‘fold’ (AH ar. طَيّ); uč 3. [adj./adv.] ‘extreme(ly)’ (QA); uč qarañġuluqda ‘in utter darkness’ (QA); Qoġuš uč uzun, tübi täriñ ärdi ‘The gutter was very long and deep’ (QAt). -
Dr. Jens Wilkens (2021) Handwörterbuch des Altuigurischen | Eski Uygurcanın El Sözlüğüp. 782a–bp. 782a–b
¹uč Ende, Spitze || uç, son, hudut, doruk; Endpunkt || aşırı uç, son nokta; Grenze || sınır; Extrem || abartma, aşırılık; Gipfel || zirve; (Krone) Zacken || (taç) ucu; Außenbezirk || kenar mahalle, varoş
uč buluŋ Spitze₂ || uç₂
uč büt Grenze₂, Ende₂ || sınır₂, son₂
uč kıdıg Grenze₂ || sınır₂; Extrem₂ || abartma₂, aşırılık₂
uč kıdıg dyan Endpunkt₂-Versenkung (Skt. prāntakoṭikadhyāna) = die vierte Versenkungsstufe || son nokta₂ meditasyonu (Skt. prāntakoṭikadhyāna) = dördüncü meditasyon aşaması
uč kıdıg dyanlıg süvri süŋünüŋ učı scharfe Lanzenspitze der Endpunkt₂-Versenkung (Skt. prāntakoṭikadhyāna) || son nokta₂ meditasyonunun (Skt. prāntakoṭikadhyāna) sivri süngü ucu
uč kıdıg eldäki → uč kıdıg eltäki
uč kıdıg eltäki im Grenz₂-Land befindlich || sınır₂ ülkedeki, sınır₂ ülkesindeki
uč kıdıg yer Grenz₂-Region || sınır₂ bölge
uč kıdıg yer oron Grenz₂-Region₂ || sınır₂ bölge₂
uč kıdıg yerlär Grenz₂-Länder || sınır₂ ülkeler
uč tutmak körüm die Ansicht des Erfassens einer Grenze = philosophischer ‘Absolutismus’ (Skt. antagrāhadṛṣṭi) || sınır tutma görüşü = felsefi ‘mutlakiyet’ (Skt. antagrāhadṛṣṭi)
uč tüp Gipfel₂, Spitze₂ || zirve₂, tepe₂, üst₂
uč yeri Außenprovinz (eines Landes) || (bir ülkenin) dış vilayetlerinde bulunan yer
uuč baš Spitze₂ || üst₂ -
Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak (2003) Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languagesp. 1482p. 1482
*ŭč῾i end, edge: Mong. *üǯügür; Turk. *ūč; Kor. *učuk.
PMong. *üǯüɣür end, edge (конец, край): MMong. uǯu’uren ‘bis zum Ende’ (HYt); WMong. üǯügür (L 1017); Kh. üʒǖr; Bur. üzǖr; Kalm. üzǖr; Ord. üǯǖr; Dag. xuǯūr (Тод. Даг. 179), huǯure (MD 166); Dong. uǯu; Bao. nǯor (Тод. Бн.), uǯir; S.-Yugh. ǯǖr; Mongr. rǯū ‘pointe, sommet, cime’ (SM 312), uǯūr.
◊ KW 460, MGCD 689. Initial x- in Dag. is not clear: under the influence of xoǯōr ‘root’ < *hiǯaɣur (?)
PTurk. *ūč end, edge (конец, край): OTurk. uč (Orkh., OUygh.); Karakh. uč (MK); Tur. uč; Gag. uč; Az. uǯ; Turkm. ūč; MTurk. uč (AH); Uzb. uč; Krm. uč; Tat. ŭč; Bashk. ŭs; Kirgh. uč; Kaz. ŭš; KKalp. uš; Nogh. uš; SUygh. uč; Khak. us; Shr. uč; Oyr. uč; Tv. uš; Chuv. vəₙś; Yak. uhuk; Dolg. uhuk.
◊ EDT 17–18, ЭСТЯ 1, 611–612, Stachowski 241. The derived *ūč-ɨk ‘end (of thread etc.)’ (ЭСТЯ 1, 615–616) > Mong. učig ‘end of thread’ (despite TMN 2, 135).
PKor. *učuk top of a tree, upper branches (верхушка дерева): Mod. uǯuk.
◊ KED 1242.
‖ Medial -ǯ- in Mong. must be due to assimilation. -
Gerard Clauson (1972) An etimological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkishpp. 17b–18app. 17b–18a
1 u:ç (u:c) ‘extremity, end, tip’, primarily in a physical sense, w. some metaph. extensions, e.g. ‘the frontier’ (of a country). The voiced consonant survives in the SW (Oğuz) languages. S.i.a.m.l.g. with some variations in the final consonant. Türkü viii bizinte: eki: uçı: sıŋarça: artuk erti: ‘their two wings were one and a half times as numerous as us’ T 40: viii ff. uçı:ŋa: begedmekke: tegi:r ‘he achieves his object of becoming a beg’ Toy. 24 (ETY II 59): Uyğ. viii [gap] uçı: Seleŋeke: tegi: çerig etdi: ‘their ... wing disposed its forces up to the Selenga River’ Şu. E 4: viii ff. Man.-A (from the top of the head) adaknaŋ tırŋak uçıŋa ‘to the tips of the toe-nails’ M I 17, 20; ol ı uçında olurdı ‘he settled on the top of that bush’ Man.-uig. Frag. 401, 1: Man. orukuŋuz uçın bulmadın ‘without reaching the end of your path’ TT III 46; a.o. do 24: Bud. tuğ uçında ‘on the point of a standard’ U II 38, 77; (stretch out the two middle fingers of both hands and) uçı bilen tegür ‘bring them together at the tips’ TT V 8, 56; yer orun uç kıdığ ‘a borderland’ Hüen-ts. 177: Civ. bıçak uçında ‘on the point of a knife’ H I 117; a.o. TT VII 20, 17: xiv Chin.-Uyğ. Dict. ‘the tip of a branch’ uç Ligeti 172: Xak. xi u:ç ‘the extremity (taraf) of anything’; hence buta:k u:çı: ‘the tip of a branch’: u:ç e:l al-tağr ‘borderland’ Kaş. I 44; a.o. III 426 (çert-): KB (death is a sea) uçı yok tübi ‘with no limits or bottom’ 1140: xiii(?) Tef. uç ‘end, limit’ 333: xiv Muh. ra’su’l-lisān ‘the tip of the tongue’ ti:l u:çı: (cim) Mel. 47, 4; Rif. 140: Çağ. xv ff. uc (‘with -c’) ‘the tip, edge or summit (nawk wa dam wa sar) of anything’ San. 65r. 6 (quot.): Oğuz xi u:ç nafādu’l-şay’ ‘a shortage of something’; hence bo:yda: ne: u:ç wa:r ‘there is no serious shortage in the clan’ (qawm) Kaş. I 44: Xwar. xiv uç ‘end, extremity’ Qutb 194; MN 72: Kom. xiv ‘end’ (physically, or of time) uç CCG; Gr. 263 (phr.): Kip. xiii u:ç eri: raçulu’l-taraf ‘frontiersman’ Hou. 30, 2: xiv u:ç (‘with back vowels’) taraf kull şay’, also used for ‘the rump’ (al-alya), hence ucun tepretgil alyatak huzz wa harrik ‘move over your rump’ İd. 8 (there is a v.l. ucaŋ, which suggests that the second meaning is an error for uça:): xv taraf uc Tuh. 23b. 4 (in Kip. consistently with cim, but this might represent -ç): Osm. xiv ff. uc ‘end, edge, frontier’ noted in various phr. fr. xiv onwards TTS I 708–10; II 915–7; III 695–7; IV 772; ucundan ‘because of’ also occurs at all periods, but can hardly be derived either from this word or from üçün; the likeliest explanation is that uc here is an early corruption of Ar. wach which has such a meaning. -
M Räsänen, I Kecskeméti (1969) Versuch eines etymologischen Wörterbuchs der Türksprachenp. 508bp. 508b
*ūč mtü. ūč ‘Spitze, Ende’, uig. usw. uč ‘das spitze Ende’, osm. krm. az. uǯ, trkm. ūč(y), kar. usw. uč, kaz. oč, čuv. vəś, vəžə ‘Ende’; jak. us-uk id., oir. usw. uč-uk ‘Faden, Sehne, Saite’, (sag.) ‘Spitze des Fadens’, (kkir.) ‘Bergspitze’; tel. uč-a ‘zuspitzen’
~ mo. (Poppe 63) učig < *učik ‘Fadenende’, (KWb. 453) učig ‘Zwirnende’
